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djquadratic Jan 15, 2024

Casey Newton Jan 15, 2024

New, Substack-free website just dropped https://www.platformer.news/

Platformer

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djquadratic Jul 25, 2023

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Casey Newton Jul 25, 2023

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djquadratic Jul 25, 2023

Sheril Kirshenbaum Jul 25, 2023

Happy birthday Rosalind Franklin!

Rosalind Franklin’s research was crucial to discovering DNA’s double helix structure. But she never received proper acknowledgement for her contribution.

James Watson & Francis Crick were awarded the credit & Nobel Prize, but their work was only possible bc they saw her unpublished data & X-ray diffraction images. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/25/science/rosalind-franklin-dna.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare #science #history #HistoryRemix

Untangling Rosalind Franklin’s Role in DNA Discovery, 70 Years On

Historians have long debated the role that Dr. Franklin played in identifying the double helix. A new opinion essay argues that she was an “equal contributor.”

The New York Times

djquadratic Jul 25, 2023

Casey Newton Jul 25, 2023

Let’s get clear on what Twitter’s rebranding to X really is: a political project from a right-wing reactionary. https://www.platformer.news/p/twitter-becomes-x

Twitter becomes X

RIP Twitter (2007-2023)

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